Tehrani, H. D., & Yamini, S.
Gender differences concerning love: A meta-analysis
This meta-analysis aimed to address gender-role differentiation and the universal (invariance) hypothesis versus the culture-based assumption of gender differences. ProQuest, Scopus, and Web of Science as well as Microsoft Academic, Science.gov, Science Open were searched for all published and non-published studies through February 21, 2019. A literature search located 51 eligible studies and 21,395 total participants. In terms of gender-role differentiation, the results of this meta-analysis reveal that no significant differences exist between males and females concerning erotic and game-playing love. Males, on average, show more altruistic and game-playing love than females. Likewise, females present more pragmatic and manic love than males. Considering culture-based assumptions of gender differences, the finding on pragmatic love shows that male-female differences vary considerably in individualistic and collectivistic cultures. Conversely, other styles of love go beyond cultural differences concerning gender-role differentiation.
Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 2020, Vol. 27, pp. 603-626, DOI: 10.4473/TPM27.4.7
